Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 99

Guleesh pitied the handsome young lady greatly when he heard that, and he was heart-broken to think that it would be necessary for her to marry a man she did not like, or, what was worse, to take a nasty sheehogue for a husband.

Who acts: Guleesh, Musha · What happens: pity, hear, break, think, be, marry · To what, where: handsome young lady, that, GULEESH, man, nasty sheehogue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guleesh, Musha), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 pitied	nsubj
2	pitied	pity	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pitied	obj
7	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	2 pitied	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 heard	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pitied	advcl
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 broken	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 broken	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 broken	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 broken	aux:pass
16	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broken	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 heart	punct
18	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pitied	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 think	mark
20	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 broken	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 necessary	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 necessary	expl
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 necessary	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 necessary	cop
25	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 think	ccomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 necessary	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 marry	mark
29	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 necessary	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 marry	obj
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 like	nsubj
33	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 like	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 like	advmod
35	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 man	acl:relcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 worse	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 worse	cc
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 or	punct
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 worse	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 worse	cop
41	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 broken	parataxis
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 take	punct
43	to	to	PART	_	44 take	mark
44	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 worse	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 sheehogue	det
46	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sheehogue	amod
47	sheehogue	sheehogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 take	obj
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 husband	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 husband	det
50	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 take	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pitied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pity	past	Guleesh	the handsome young lady	greatly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
2	hear	past	GULEESH	that		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	break	past · passive		GULEESH		tree rules
4	think speech: other	to-infinitive				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	would			for Musha; necessary property	tree rules
6	marry	to-infinitive		a man		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
7	not like	past · do-support	Musha	a man not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme
8	is	past			bad property	tree rules
9	take	to-infinitive		a nasty sheehogue	for a husband	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sheehogue=Theme for husband=Beneficiary

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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